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How the West Was Won or Lost
The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America, by Robert G. Athearn
by Larry McMurtry
The New Republic, October 22, 1990, pp. 32-37
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America (1986)
    Robert G. Athearn
    2 Reviews
  2. Myth of the West (1990)
    Chris Bruce
    1 Review
  3. Forgotten Frontier (1989)
    A. Dudley Gardner and Verla R. Flores
    A History of Wyoming Coal Mining
    2 Reviews
  4. New Lands, New Men (1986)
    William H. Goetzmann
    America and the Second Great Age of Discovery
    1 Review
  5. The West of the Imagination (1988)
    William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann, ...
    3 Reviews
  6. The Legacy of Conquest (1987)
    Patricia Nelson Limerick
    The Unbroken Past of the American West
    2 Reviews
  7. The Female Frontier (1988)
    Glenda Riley
    A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains
    2 Reviews
  8. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (1987)
    Vicki L. Ruiz
    Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry 1930...
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  9. The Conquest of Paradise (1990)
    Kirkpatrick Sale
    Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  10. Far from Home (1989)
    Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten, ...
    Families of the Westward Journey
    2 Reviews
  11. Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives (1988)
    Lillian Schlissel, Janice Monk, and Vicki L. Ruiz, ...
    1 Review
  12. Cowboys of the Americas (1990)
    Richard W. Slatta
    1 Review
  13. Beyond the Mythic West (1990)
    Stewart L. Udall
    2 Reviews
  14. Many Tender Ties (1983)
    Sylvia Van Kirk
    Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
    2 Reviews
  15. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979)
    Donald Worster
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. Rivers of Empire (1985)
    Donald Worster
    Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
    2 Reviews
  17. We Pointed Them North (1939)
    E.C. Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith
    Recollections of a Cowpuncher
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  18. Sky Determines: An Interpretation of the Southwest (1934)
    Ross Calvin
    3 Reviews
  19. Son of the Morning Star (1984)
    Evan S. Connell
    Custer and the Little Bighorn
    10 Reviews, 2 Readable
  20. The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic (1934)
    Angie Debo
    3 Reviews
  21. The Road to Disappearance (1941)
    Angie Debo
    A History of the Creek Indians
    3 Reviews
  22. Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (1976)
    Angie Debo
    4 Reviews
  23. Exploration and Empire (1966)
    William H. Goetzmann
    The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
    4 Reviews
  24. Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman (1936)
    J. Evetts Haley
    1 Review
  25. The Trail Drivers of Texas (1920)
    J. Marvin Hunter
    Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and Their Experiences on the Range and ...
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  26. Turner, Bolton, and Webb (1965)
    Wilbur R. Jacobs, John Walton Caughey, and Joe Bertram Frantz, ...
    Three Historians of the American Frontier
    1 Review
  27. The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement (1933)
    Rupert Norval Richardson
    A Century and a Half of Savage Resistance to the Advancing White Frontier
    2 Reviews
  28. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950)
    Henry Nash Smith
    7 Reviews, 2 Readable
  29. The American Cowboy (1983)
    Lonn Taylor and Ingrid Maar
    1 Review
  30. The Significance of the Frontier, and Other Essays (1893)
    Frederick Jackson Turner
    2 Reviews
  31. The Plains Across (1979)
    John D. Unruh, Jr.
    The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
    2 Reviews
  32. The Great Plains (1931)
    Walter Prescott Webb
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  33. The Great Frontier (1952)
    Walter Prescott Webb
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
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